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Why Savannah? 




PUBLISHED BY 



The Savannah 
Chamber of Commerce 



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F you were required to name six of the 
largest cities of the South, you could 
readily do so. 



If you were asked to designate the 
leading agricultural, mining and manufac- 
turing cities, you would not be far out 
of the way. 

But, if you were requested to put your 
finger on the great strategic point for 
Southern trade and merchandise distribu- 
tion, you might hesitate. 

Unless you were thoroughly familiar 
with traffic conditions and the channels of 
trade your answer would be wrong. 



In the first place, that city must not be 
inland or it can never have the receiving 
and shipping advantages and the benefit of 
low freight rates. 

It can't be in the West, because trade 
tendencies are not West to East — but 
always East to West. 

A Western or Gulf port must ever 
be at a disadvantage in serving the more 
densely populated portion of the South — 
the South-Eastern States. 

Finding that your distributing point can 
not be inland and can not be a Gulf-port, 
it then must be on the Atlantic Seaboard. 

Savannah is the principal seaport of the 
Atlantic Coast South. 

The Federal Government has expended 
eight millions of dollars in improving its 
harbor. 



It is recognized as the natural port of 
entry and export for the entire South-East 
and a great part of the West. 

Savannah is nearer the great food- 
producing sections of the West than any 
of the Northern seaports, and the wonder- 
ful mineral regions of the South are almost 
at its gates. 

It is seven hundred miles nearer the 
West than is New York. 

The vessels of four great Steamship 
lines ply between Savannah and the various 
European ports. 

The docks of all Steamship lines 
entering Savannah are connected with 
railway lines. Freight can be unloaded 
from steamers direcdy to cars or into 
warehouses, at a saving over the more 
expensive methods at the larger ports, and 



re-shipments made quickly and without 
troublesome delays. 

Four of the largest railway systems of 
the South have their terminals at Savannah : 
the Atlantic Coast Line, the Sea-board Air 
Line, the Southern and Central of Georgia 
Railways. 

These roads have nearly seventeen 
thousand miles of track. They traverse 
ten States with a population of sixteen 
millions of people. 

Savannah is nearer the rate-basing junc- 
tion points of North and South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida and Alabama, than is 
any other shipping center. 

Savannah is nearer Omaha, Kansas City 
and St. Louis than is New York, Philadel- 
phia or Baltimore. 



Since the year ninteen hundred, imports 
at Savannah have increased over three hun- 
dred per cent. 

Savannah is the largest cotton port on 
the Atlantic. 

It is the largest Naval Stores market in 
the world. 

A great part of the South looks to Sa- 
vannah for the financing of the cotton crop. 

Last year Savannah received eighty-seven 
million dollars* worth of cotton. 

Manufacturies have increased one hun- 
dred and twenty-five per cent, in five years. 

Bank clearings at Savannah average a 
million dollars a day. 

It is one of the largest jobbing centres 
of the South. 



The Coastwise Steamship lines handle 
out of Savannah a million and a quarter 
tons of freight a year. 

If you are going to establish in the 
South a manufacturing plant, a branch of 
your business, a distributing depot for your 
merchandise, you want to consider the 
present and the future. 

The great natural advantages of Savannah 
can not change. The city's relation to the 
rest of the South must grow in importance 
as the South develops. 

Other cities of the South have their suc- 
cesses, their enterprise, and their enthusiastic 
citizens. They are forging ahead in their 
own way, and God speed their progress. 

When it comes to natural situation — 
ingress and egress — Savannah is the point 
of vantage. 



Nothing can alter Savannah's position 
as a distributing center. 

The eyes of Northern business firms are 
turning to Savannah — many have estabHshed 
branches there. 

The step is no experiment as any one 
can learn by writing to twenty or more 
Northern concerns of prominence whose 
names will be furnished on request. 



The Savannah Chamber of Commerce 
Savannah^ Georgia 



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